Sunrise Fan

@sunrisefan (28524)

Philippines

Joined myLot 8 years ago

Stepping back does not always mean losing or cowardice; sometimes it's the better part of valor or discretion.

Discussions (401)

Sunrise Fan's Discussions

Will the Russia-Ukraine war push fuel prices more?

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 24 Feb 22

Russia has finally attacked Ukraine today and started the war. I'm afraid this will push the prices of fuel more. Sadly, in our country we've suffered the 8th fuel price increase for the year the other day . I am using turbo...

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Covid cases in NZ skyrocketing

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 24 Feb 22

The covid cases in New Zealand (especially in Auckland) has gone up by leaps and I'm worried for my daughter who works as a nurse at the ED of the hospital. The case the other day was over 2,000 and yesterday it was over 3,000....

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Coop founding anniversary

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 17 Feb 22

Today is the 54th founding anniversary of our cooperative so I woke up early to go to the office to attend mass at 7AM and the anniversary program later. Because of covid protocols, only about a hundred employees of the Head...

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Garbage segregation

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 10 Feb 22

While I was on my Mac this morning, the sound of somebody entering our village with a megaphone caught my attention. There were 4 of them from the city's General Services Department. They were reminding residents to segregate...

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News travel faster

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 9 Feb 22

I was cutting some twigs of the plant beside our fence and planting them when my wife called me that my daughter in New Zealand wanted to talk to me. My daughter wanted to ask if we have heard that the mother of her classmate...

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Vaccine certificate

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 8 Feb 22

After over a month of checking the internet for my vaccine certificate and that of my wife, I was finally able to download it this afternoon. It took more than a month since our booster shot on December 29 for our record to be...

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Still Christmas for this tree

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 4 Feb 22

It's been over a month now since Christmas day but this is still how our live tree looks like today :) The last time I trimmed it was about 2 weeks before Christmas and it's only now that these colors that I wanted came out.

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It's bidding time for nurses!

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 30 Jan 22

I was attracted to an advertisement placed by a local university hospital (where my daughter worked for 2 years before moving on to New Zealand) that they are hiring nurses. As a come on, they are giving P50,000 as signing bonus...

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Now I'm an engineer again :)

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 30 Jan 22

It's been a long while that I have not posted any discussion here because I've been busy with many things especially with meetings relative to our ongoing hotel project which we hope to be finished by June. As the main hotel...

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Do I still look like a priest?

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 7 Oct 21

Hi friends! I'm back but still I'll be here seldom. We arrived in the country last August 15 in Cebu and had to quarantine there for 10 days. When we arrived in our home city, it also seemed we were on quarantine because we had a...

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Exactly a year today

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 12 Mar 21

Today marks one full year of our stay here in New Zealand. We left our home country on March 11 last year and arrived here on today's date. Just 4 days after we left, our borders were locked down because of the pandemic. Had we...

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Tsunami warning

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 4 Mar 21

While being on Mylot, my two phones began ringing and displayed this tsunami warning to Auckland due to a 8.0M earthquake that occurred in Kermadec Islands east of New Zealand. Earlier this morning at 2:27AM there was also a 7.3M...

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Foggy morning at Auckland Domain

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 20 Feb 21

It's Sunday today and I woke up very early and took an early bath after which I did the laundry. I was planning to harvest the leafy lettuce and the buttercrunch lettuce so they won't be dry. Besides, the last time my daughter...

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A beautiful toilet at the park

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 19 Feb 21

As my daughter and I made our Saturday sunrise walk, we passed by this beautiful and neat toilet. I admire how amenities are provided by New Zealand to its citizens like parks with toilets as beautiful as this and picnic tables...

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Saturday sunrise walk

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 19 Feb 21

I woke up early today to water the vegetables and some flower plants and as I was doing this, my older daughter came out and asked me to come along for a walk at Owairaka Park where we brought our little boy yesterday. The boy...

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Early morning's bountiful harvest

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 16 Feb 21

After 3 days of continuous rain, the forecast for today and the succeeding days is sunny so I went to the garden early to harvest some of the vegetables. The lettuce are all cramped up with plenty of leaves so I needed to harvest...

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Snap lockdown in Auckland

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 14 Feb 21

At dinner time last night, our phones were ringing with warning text blasts from the health department. Auckland has been placed in lockdown at Alert Level 3 beginning 11:59 PM till Wednesday because of 3 new covid cases which...

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Saturday morning walk

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 12 Feb 21

It's a bright Saturday today and, while I was starting to take out the weeds early outside of the fence, my daughter asked if I wanted to go walking with her and I said yes I'd love to go. I hurriedly changed and off we went to...

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Friday morning walk

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 11 Feb 21

My older daughter probably sensed that I'm already very bored with our stay here that she asked me this morning that we go for a walk at the nearby hill. I hurriedly changed to my walking outfit and off we went at about 7AM. The...

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For my friend’s granddaughter

Sunrise Fan @sunrisefan (28524) • Philippines 31 Jan 21

My friend’s granddaughter dropped by to pick up the perfume and cream she wanted us to bring home to her father if not because of the lockdown that had us stuck up here in NZ. She will just send the items via international...

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